That brown recluse thing

Can this nasty thing cause symptoms that mimic pneumonia, and cause general
blood sepsis and gastrointestinal infection? I wonder if this is the case
with The Prophet Jeff, who lives way out in the country. His symptoms were
sudden like that.

And on a better note, while he is still in ICU, he is conscious and mad as
hell they won't spring him. the pneumonia still needs work and he is on a
ventilator, but it's good to see him mad. Means there's life in him. He
misses his Sweetie cat like all hell and just wants to feel a purr.

Blessed be,
Baha

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On Jul 18, 2007, Baha via CatKB.com wrote:

Can this nasty thing cause symptoms that mimic pneumonia, and cause general
blood sepsis and gastrointestinal infection? I wonder if this is the case
with The Prophet Jeff, who lives way out in the country. His symptoms were
sudden like that.

And on a better note, while he is still in ICU, he is conscious and mad as
hell they won't spring him. the pneumonia still needs work and he is on a
ventilator, but it's good to see him mad. Means there's life in him. He
misses his Sweetie cat like all hell and just wants to feel a purr.

Blessed be,
Baha



I wish I could remember more of the details (watched a PBS broadcast a while
ago) but I came away from the program thinking most people who were bitten
were goners. Those were from somewhere down under, so maybe US-bred brown
recluses aren't so virulent, but they will kill a cat, as evidenced by one of
our posters a while ago.

--
Joey Dee from NYC

Remember: It is To Laugh

a few Ketzl pix
http://tinyurl.com/2a5u8b

"Baha via CatKB.com" u18616@uwe wrote in message news:7560f5f4e7390@uwe...
Can this nasty thing cause symptoms that mimic pneumonia, and cause
general
blood sepsis and gastrointestinal infection? I wonder if this is the case
with The Prophet Jeff, who lives way out in the country. His symptoms were
sudden like that.

And on a better note, while he is still in ICU, he is conscious and mad as
hell they won't spring him. the pneumonia still needs work and he is on a
ventilator, but it's good to see him mad. Means there's life in him. He
misses his Sweetie cat like all hell and just wants to feel a purr.

Blessed be,
Baha

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider
this is from my home state university
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/c...rownspider.htm

Healing purrs are on the way.

--
Joy

Keep an open mind. Discuss but don't argue. It is a mark of a superior
mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.


"Baha via CatKB.com" u18616@uwe wrote in message news:7560f5f4e7390@uwe...
Can this nasty thing cause symptoms that mimic pneumonia, and cause
general
blood sepsis and gastrointestinal infection? I wonder if this is the case
with The Prophet Jeff, who lives way out in the country. His symptoms were
sudden like that.

And on a better note, while he is still in ICU, he is conscious and mad as
hell they won't spring him. the pneumonia still needs work and he is on a
ventilator, but it's good to see him mad. Means there's life in him. He
misses his Sweetie cat like all hell and just wants to feel a purr.

Blessed be,
Baha

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Message posted via http://www.catkb.com

Ketzl's Dad wrote:

I wish I could remember more of the details (watched a PBS broadcast a while
ago) but I came away from the program thinking most people who were bitten
were goners. Those were from somewhere down under, so maybe US-bred brown
recluses aren't so virulent

There's an iron-clad rule which says that, for every species of critter
in the non-Australia universe, if there exists a corresponding species in
Australia, the Australian one will be aggressive, lethal, and EVIL.

Joyce

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Ketzl's Dad wrote:

I wish I could remember more of the details (watched a PBS broadcast a
while
ago) but I came away from the program thinking most people who were
bitten
were goners. Those were from somewhere down under, so maybe US-bred
brown
recluses aren't so virulent

There's an iron-clad rule which says that, for every species of critter
in the non-Australia universe, if there exists a corresponding species in
Australia, the Australian one will be aggressive, lethal, and EVIL.

Yowie waves politely :-)

Yowie

"Baha via CatKB.com" u18616@uwe wrote in message news:7560f5f4e7390@uwe...
Can this nasty thing cause symptoms that mimic pneumonia, and cause
general
blood sepsis and gastrointestinal infection? I wonder if this is the case
with The Prophet Jeff, who lives way out in the country. His symptoms were
sudden like that.

A bite site would be very well evident now, Baha. The problem is whether to
consider allt he symptoms as indicative of one disease, or whether the
symptoms are from a number of different conditions.

I am in in no way a medical proffesional, but would suggest that, given the
symptoms, Jeff was in very poor health before he got sick, and at least one
of the above symptoms is wha they call a 'oppurtunistic infection', that is,
it would neve rbe able to take hold had the body's immune system been
compromised by the first infection.

His whole body is suffering from infection -what caused it is the question.

And on a better note, while he is still in ICU, he is conscious and mad as
hell they won't spring him. the pneumonia still needs work and he is on a
ventilator, but it's good to see him mad. Means there's life in him. He
misses his Sweetie cat like all hell and just wants to feel a purr.

Mad as hell means he's healthy enough to have some fight left, and that his
faculties are probably working jsut fine. Both are really good, encouraging
signs. may he feel the purs of Sweetie still.

Yowie

Yowie wrote:

wrote in message

There's an iron-clad rule which says that, for every species of critter
in the non-Australia universe, if there exists a corresponding species in
Australia, the Australian one will be aggressive, lethal, and EVIL.

Yowie waves politely :-)

Oh, um, heh... excluding humans, that is.

Joyce

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Yowie wrote:

wrote in message

There's an iron-clad rule which says that, for every species of critter
in the non-Australia universe, if there exists a corresponding species
in
Australia, the Australian one will be aggressive, lethal, and EVIL.

Yowie waves politely :-)

Oh, um, heh... excluding humans, that is.

I took it as a compliment ;-)

Yowie

"Baha via CatKB.com" u18616@uwe wrote:
Can this nasty thing cause symptoms that mimic pneumonia, and cause general
blood sepsis and gastrointestinal infection? I wonder if this is the case
with The Prophet Jeff, who lives way out in the country. His symptoms were
sudden like that.

And on a better note, while he is still in ICU, he is conscious and mad as
hell they won't spring him. the pneumonia still needs work and he is on a
ventilator, but it's good to see him mad. Means there's life in him. He
misses his Sweetie cat like all hell and just wants to feel a purr.

I didn't know Jeff was still in ICU! Purrs that he gets better very
soon. It doesn't sound though like what he has would be a brown
recluse bite, which I understand that if it's serious, will start with
some localized tissue necrosis that would be difficult to miss.